Project Controls Specialist - Senior Planner jobs at Jacobs in Australia, Melbourne

Due to a secure pipeline of work, we’re looking for a
Civil Engineer

As a Senior Associate Civil Engineer, you'll provide expert consultancy and detailed design engineering services for our clients while providing technical leadership for successful project delivery and winning new work. You'll collaborate with commercial, project management, design teams and other technical leaders to create opportunities for Jacobs across our extensive engineering services panel work.

You bring extensive experience designing major water infrastructure projects including pipelines, treatment plants, trunk mains, and pump stations. You balance technical innovation with practical implementation, ensuring designs are both excellent and buildable while maintaining commercial awareness throughout project delivery.

By joining our team you’ll not only get to work on some of ANZ’s most interesting projects you’ll also enjoy a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, workplace flexibility that respects your life beyond work and a culture that invests in your continued professional development.

As our new
Senior Wastewater Modellerin our Water Infrastructure team, you'll be at the intersection of analytical thinking, environmental engineering, client consultation and crafting solutions to real-world challenges.

This isn't just about building models - it's about building understanding. You'll transform raw client data into sophisticated hydraulic network models that reflect real world conditions and reveal insights about asset performance. When your models reveal discrepancies between theoretical function and actual operation, you'll engage directly with clients to investigate the "why" behind these differences, offering potential solutions and identifying the risks to their business.

Your work directly impacts critical decision-making by:

• Forecasting potential wastewater system shortfalls before they become problems
• Identifying strategic locations for infrastructure upgrades, including approximate costs and implementation staging of these.
• Determining optimal sizing for pipes, pumps and holding tanks
• Recommending operational changes to optimise existing asset efficiency
• Projecting long-term performance scenarios under various conditions or climatic variations

What Makes This Role Different

This position stands apart by requiring both technical precision and investigative thinking. You'll collaborate with clients to bridge the gap between data-driven results and operational realities, turning complex findings into actionable insights.

1. Type of experience - Project execution, Installation, commissioning of electrical equipment. Calculation and design of electrical systems consists of load summary, sizing of power equipment, DG sets, cables and their schedule.

   Design of electrical SLD with protection schemes, calculation for illumination, earthing layouts.

   Design of ELV system mainly consists of fire & alarm, access control, public address and their interfacing with each other.

   Apart of technical knowledge, electrical engineer need to be able to lead project multitask and fulfill deliverable commitments. The main expectations from project aspects are –

   • Attend meetings with clients and identifying their requirements.
   • Propose systems and schemes.
   • Prepare design specifications and develop layout drawings.
   • Preparation of tender & enquiry documents for electrical equipment, package items, estimation of contractor MTO and project costing.
   • Knowledge of IS / IEC / BS / NEC standards.
   • Liaising and coordination with other inter departments in the design.
   • Able to communicate with clients, suppliers and contractors.
   • Tracking and monitor progress of the job

As our Senior Planner, you will provide strategic leadership for project schedule delivery, driving program success through proactive management. Your expertise will directly contribute to business risk management while strengthening Jacobs' client relationships and identifying growth opportunities in the transport sector.

You will be accountable for comprehensive program oversight—actively monitoring, managing, and reporting on project progress while identifying interfaces and mitigating schedule risks to maintain program integrity and delivery timelines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic development, management and ownership of the project schedule for complex infrastructure projects
• Delivery of insightful schedule performance reporting that enables effective decision-making
• Regular communication with senior leadership and clients on schedule status and forecasts
• Leadership of a scheduling team, providing mentorship and technical guidance
• Proactive monitoring of CPI/SPI metrics with rapid identification and resolution of delays
• Implementation of earned value methodologies to accurately track and report program development
• Critical path analysis and management to ensure program milestones are achieved
• Identification and management of dependencies between work packages and external inputs
• Proactively explore and challenge program issues to de-risk the project schedule
• Development and implementation of recovery strategies to maintain program objectives
• Baseline management and change control processes
• Application of design and construction expertise to create realistic, achievable schedules
• Provision of constructability and value engineering insights to optimise program delivery

In your role as a Maritime Project Lead your project management and technical knowledge of ports and maritime projects will be of key importance. You will be capable of directing design and study teams on projects, developing, designing, and facilitating the documentation of complex ports and maritime solutions to exceed client expectations. Your focus will be in the areas of project management, maritime infrastructure design, engaging with senior engineers and technical leaders, supporting junior members of the team, delivering outputs for small, medium and large multidisciplinary Ports and Maritime projects.